Cancer is often the results mutations that involve ________.

A. Genes in the mitotic spindle
B. Proto-oncogenes mutating and becoming oncogenes
C. Oncogenes mutating and becoming proto-oncogenes
D. Both proto-oncogenes and oncogenes mutating


Answer: B

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